{"id":21660,"date":"2014-04-19T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21660"},"modified":"2014-04-19T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:00:44","slug":"letter-in-support-of-paycheck-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21660","title":{"rendered":"Letter: In support of paycheck protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-770676\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Letters1.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Pennsylvania needs Paycheck Protection laws. It&#8217;s not fair that public sector unions have special privilege.\u00a0 It is not the responsibility of government entities to collect union dues.\u00a0\u00a0 Furthermore, I do not want my tax dollars being used\u00a0to\u00a0collect union dues &#8211;\u00a0and that includes using our\/my tax dollars to collect\u00a0union dues in our school districts.\u00a0\u00a0 Should taxpayers be the union&#8217;s accounting firm and collection service?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Unions need to do the collecting of dues themselves &#8211; directly from their members.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to end the special privilege afforded to public sector unions at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Jane E Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Franklin Township<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp\"> \t<form name=\"pdf24Form0\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/doc2pdf.pdf24.org\/wordpress.php\" target=\"pdf24PopWin\" onsubmit=\"var pdf24Win = window.open('about:blank', 'pdf24PopWin', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=250,left='+(screen.width\/2-300)+',top='+(screen.height\/3-125)+''); pdf24Win.focus(); if(typeof pdf24OnCreatePDF === 'function'){void(pdf24OnCreatePDF(this,pdf24Win));}\"> \t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogCharset\" value=\"Cw1x07UAAA==\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogPosts\" value=\"MwQA\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogUrl\" value=\"yygpKSi20tcvLy\/XK83LzM8ry8zJSS3JzE0t1kvOzwUA\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogName\" value=\"C8lIVQjNy8zPK8vMyUlVCMnMTS0GAA==\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogValueEncoding\" value=\"gzdeflate base64\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postId_0\" value=\"MzI0MzMAAA==\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postTitle_0\" value=\"80ktKUktslLwzFMoLi0oyC8qUchPUyhIrEzOSE3OVigoyi9JTS7JzM8DAA==\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postLink_0\" value=\"yygpKSi20tcvLy\/XK83LzM8ry8zJSS3JzE0t1kvOz9W3L7A1MjQzMwAA\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postAuthor_0\" value=\"883MTlXwTXZPzMsDAA==\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postDateTime_0\" value=\"MzIwNNE1MNE1tFQwsLAyMLEyMQEA\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"postContent_0\" value=\"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\" \/> \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdf24.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.pdf24.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf24-posts-to-pdf\/img\/pdf_32x32.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> \t\t<span class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp-space\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span> \t\t<span class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp-text\">Send article as PDF<\/span> \t\t<span class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp-space\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span> \t\t<input class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp-input\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" type=\"text\" name=\"sendEmailTo\" placeholder=\"Enter email address\" \/> \t\t<input class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp-submit\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\" \/> \t<\/form> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: Pennsylvania needs Paycheck Protection laws. It&#8217;s not fair that public sector unions have special privilege.\u00a0 It is not the responsibility of government entities to collect union dues.\u00a0\u00a0 Furthermore, I do not want my tax dollars being used\u00a0to\u00a0collect union dues &#8211;\u00a0and that includes using our\/my tax dollars to collect\u00a0union dues in our school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[5387,5388],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-paycheck-protection","tag-public-sector-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}